Available once again for a new generation of readers, the groundbreaking and candid coming-of-age novel in-real-time from one of Americas most celebrated poets that is considered a cult classic.In this breathtakingly inventive autobiographical novel, Eileen Myles transforms life into a work of art. Told in her audacious voice, made vivid and immediate in her lyrical language, Chelsea Girls cobbles together memories of Myles 1960s Catholic upbringing with an alcoholic father, her volatile adoles ...